When Richard and Julie Licon bought a $500,000 townhouse in Orange County for them and their six children, little did they kno...
Judges and Judiciary
Disappointed Parents Try Recalling Three Bench Officers
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - The first judicial recall campaign in Marin County history seems reminiscent of the arena that spawned it: div...
We are living in the Age of Big: gazillion-dollar corporate pairings; cities that stretch for hundreds of miles. When the stoc...
Dicta: On 'The Practice' By Paul Harris In a powerful and well-researched episode, "The Practice" looks at the consequences o...
Public Interest
Racist Confederate Flag Did, Still Does, Embody Slavery
By Contributing Writer
Forum: By Vernon Jarrett Nearly 150 years after the Confederate battle flag last flew above a rebel army, the meaning of that...
^^S/Ages^^ MICRA's Scope If examination shows that residential care facilities recklessly neglect an elder, emotional distress...
^^At Issue^^ BY DEBORAH ROSENTHAL The public's interest in seeing its laws followed is vigorously guarded, in part by the comm...
Forum: Justice for All By Phoenix Streets A war is being waged throughout California. At stake are people's homes - the havens...
Dicta: On 'Ally McBeal' By Renee Laurents Cybersex is freeware for the 1-900--addicted. Both phones and the Internet have come...
Armed with a humble attitude and a tale of misfortune, famed radical San Francisco defense attorney J. Tony Serra on Thursday ...
Practitioner: Environmental Law By William D. Wick The Leaking Underground Storage Tanks (LUST) program at the U.S. Environme...
Dicta: On 'Family Law' By Erin O'Bryan This week's "Family Law" had quite an attention-grabbing opener. We saw a Catholic prie...
SAN FRANCISCO - Rejecting a proposed $15 million global settlement for a potential class of 190 million people as unrealistic,...
By Deborah Rosenthal When Kermith Sonnier followed a reference to the Law Offices of Stephen Ball, he was looking for independ...
ADR PROFILE Victor T. Barrera By Rebecca Kuzins Judge Victor T. Barrera's all-night settlement conferences were legendary amon...
^^OPINION^^ Unsafe and Unsound By Bill Higgins When it comes to property rights and the 5th Amendment's takings clause of the ...
By Deborah Rosenthal William E. Kirchhoff hit a career low when, following his termination as manager of the c ity of Redondo ...
Nearly 400 adoptions of children in foster care will become final Saturday during Adoption Saturday at the Edmund D. Edelman C...
Forum: By Harvey Karp As a pediatrician, I know parents work very hard to make a living, put good food on the table and keep t...
Dicta: On 'Judging Amy' By Akilah Monifa For this week's show, you gotta have heart, both literally and figuratively. Judge A...
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco Superior Court appellate panel has ruled that landlords who are getting out of the rental busi...
The Los Angeles County Bar Association has mounted the first formal opposition to legislation that would require all Californi...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Suit Says Youth Authority Uses Unlicensed Health Facilities
By Dennis Pfaff
SAN FRANCISCO - California juvenile offenders are being treated in medical and mental health facilities that are unlicensed an...
A former creator of "Barbie" commercials for Ogilvy & Mather has sued the advertising giant, claiming that it unceremoniou...
The brother of an Iraqi dissident fighting deportation on charges of being a national security threat completed testimony Thur...
SAN DIEGO -- With Mexico's chief anti-drug prosecutor standing beside him, U.S. Attorney Gregory A. Vega announced Thursday th...
Suspended Rampart CRASH officer Humberto Tovar has been granted limited-use immunity by prosecutors in an effort to shore up t...
Labor/Employment
State Court Provides Protection To Some Groups for Illegal Acts
By Peter Blumberg
SACRAMENTO - The California Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a state law exempting religiously affiliated organizations from a...
Personal Injury & Torts
O.C. Couple to File Lawsuit Against Irvine Fertility Clinic
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - In what a plaintiffs' attorney is dubbing "just the tip of the iceberg," an Orange County couple today will file t...
Corporate and securities lawyer Alan C. Mendelson, a $10 million rainmaker and one of the founding partners of Cooley Godward ...